On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Something called "National Security Presidential Memorandum 7" is now a thing?

I'm wondering about two stars, WT 767 and 768, both in Indus (I believe, after checking Gaia Sky), and it looks to me as if they're barely a light-year from each other. If I'm correct, they might be a candidate as "host" stars for Sullivan's Planet from "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail".

In which case, maybe HD 205156 can serve as "Helicon"?

I'm also asking my WT 767+768 question on the Celestia Discord server.

Is anyone having issues accessing stellarcatalog.com at the moment?

I went looking and it turns out that Jérôme Lalande's star catalogue has been preserved and translated to English.

Having since discovered by such means that Lalande 8 - from John M. Ford's Star Trek novel The Final Reflection - is in fact a real star, I am now trying to find out what names or catalogue numbers that star is currently best known by. Any suggestions on the matter? Apparently, as of 1847, it was deemed to be in the constellation Cassiopeia?

I'm not going to name the item in question at the moment, because the issue's bound to come again with something else later. I figure that this is going to be an "evergreen" sort of question.

Anyway.

There's a piece of software I'm considering buying an update for tonight, because severe discount on offer, limited time offer.

Complication: I don't have the hardware needed to run it right now. I don't know when/if I'll be able to get that hardware. I *do* like using the software's older version with the hardware I *do* have at the moment.

Thoughts?

Are there any stars within 1-5 ly of a direct spline between GJ 9247 (Satterfeld) and UCAC2 12366750 (Colil)?

Yes, this is probably a question for players of Elite Dangerous at the moment, or someone who knows their way around Gaia Sky or other planetarium-software much better than I.

There's a thing from a favourite fanfic webcomic series that I want to work into the map.

Let's see how many of them are known to my circle here on Dreamwidth.

(Yes, I blame L&O: Toronto: Criminal Intent for this impulse. No, I haven't seen the first episode.)

Is anyone else having trouble using the "y" key in typing stuff on Fandom.com's wiki sites?

Which would you say is going to be easier to remember for a layperson? An SAO catalogue number or "BD ##º #####"?

I'm betting on the SAO number over the Bonner Durchmusterung.

Yes, this is for the Edge of Midnight base map project.

Yes, this is for the Edge of Darkness project.

Right now, I'm re-reading Star Charts and Stellar Cartography

1. GJ 3414
2. HD 10226

The latter is 150+ ly below "galactic equatorial". The former is 21 ly above it.

Other considerations for my choice?

Needs to be close to the core systems because of events in the DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight" where Betazed is taken by Dominion forces. Quoting Memory Alpha: "With Betazed captured, other nearby worlds, including Vulcan, Tellar, Alpha Centauri, and Andor, were at risk of Dominion attack."

(If you've got those systems within striking distance, Sol's in range, too, right?)

Also, it needs to be on the "roads" between those systems and Bajor/Cardassia's neighbourhood, which is roughly 100 ly above "galactic equatorial". If you look up from Earth towards the Ursa Major-Draco constellation border with a strong enough telescope, you should see the alleged home stars of those planets.